regular order, so by the book, it wasn t a big deal. yet pompeo pretends it could have been wrong and it s got to be investigated. i mean, look, it s really obvious this was a hit on milley. you got to call it straight and those guys have to answer questions now that they want to see milley answer. yeah. look, in politics in washington, we know there s ample ambition. everybody s got it. no one can deny it. hopefully there s principle too, and principle ought to outweigh ambition. when in the case of an aspiring presidential candidate ambition comes out on top of principle, it s bad news. you re talking about pompeo. let s see how he answers for himself. john bolton, thank you very much. appreciate it. thanks for having me. we turn from the chaos of the trump white house. look, politics is dirty. john bolton is right. ambition can often come first. but, look, this time in our life is going to be remembered, all right? politicians are loose with the truth.
there are political ambitions at stake. pompeo is running for president. i think that s pretty clear what about the senators, rubio, hawley. how can have questions for milley and not have them for the people you told that didn t let you know that they knew? yeah. may i just say, i m not sure pompeo would have communicated to those people or mark meadows that milley was calling the chinese because it was so standard operating procedure, so regular order, so by the book, it wasn t a big deal. yet pompeo pretends it could have been wrong and it s got to be investigated. i mean, look, it s really obvious this was a hit on milley. you got to call it straight and those guys have to answer questions now that they want to see milley answer. yeah. look, in politics in washington, we know there s ample ambition.